Northwest Semitic

E26803

Semitic language subgroup branch of language family

Northwest Semitic is a branch of the Semitic language family that includes languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician, historically spoken in the Levant.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form	Occurrences
Northwest Semitic languages	10
Canaanite languages	3
Northwest Semitic scripts	3
Northwest Semitic branch	1
Northwest–Arabic Semitic	1
West Semitic languages	1
Western Aramaic	1

Statements (77)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Semitic language subgroup ⓘ branch of language family ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	case loss in many later varieties ⓘ development of definite article in Canaanite ⓘ emphatic consonants ⓘ grammatical gender ⓘ nonconcatenative morphology ⓘ prefix-conjugation verbs ⓘ suffix-conjugation verbs ⓘ use of triconsonantal roots ⓘ widespread use as lingua franca via Aramaic in the first millennium BCE ⓘ
hasDescendant	Ammonite ⓘ Aramaic ⓘ Canaanite languages ⓘ Edomite ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Moabite ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ surface form: Modern Hebrew Neo-Aramaic languages ⓘ Phoenician-Punic ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ surface form: Samaritan Hebrew Syriac ⓘ Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Ugaritic
hasMember	Ammonite ⓘ Amorites ⓘ surface form: Amorite Aramaic ⓘ Aramaic ⓘ surface form: Aramaic languages Aramaic ⓘ surface form: Biblical Aramaic Hebrew ⓘ surface form: Biblical Hebrew Phoenician language ⓘ surface form: Byblian Phoenician Northwest Semitic self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Canaanite languages Deir Alla dialect ⓘ Eastern Aramaic ⓘ Edomite ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Aramaic ⓘ surface form: Imperial Aramaic Mandaic ⓘ Moabite ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ surface form: Modern Hebrew Nabataean Aramaic ⓘ Neo-Aramaic languages ⓘ Aramaic ⓘ surface form: Old Aramaic Hebrew ⓘ surface form: Old Hebrew Aramaic ⓘ surface form: Palmyrene Aramaic Phoenician civilization ⓘ surface form: Phoenician Phoenician language ⓘ surface form: Phoenician-Punic Punic ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ surface form: Samaritan Hebrew Sidetic ⓘ Syriac ⓘ Targums ⓘ surface form: Targumic Aramaic Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Ugaritic Western Neo-Aramaic ⓘ surface form: Western Aramaic
partOf	Semitic languages ⓘ
relatedTo	Arabic ⓘ East Semitic languages ⓘ South Semitic languages ⓘ
spokenIn	Ancient Mediterranean world ⓘ surface form: Ancient Near East Canaan ⓘ Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant Mesopotamia ⓘ Palestine ⓘ Phoenician civilization ⓘ surface form: Phoenicia Syria ⓘ Jordan ⓘ surface form: Transjordan
subclassOf	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ Central Semitic languages ⓘ surface form: Central Semitic
timePeriod	1st millennium BCE ⓘ 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ Ancient Mediterranean world ⓘ surface form: Classical Antiquity
writingSystem	Aramaic alphabet (historically) ⓘ surface form: Aramaic script Hebrew alphabet ⓘ Paleo-Hebrew script ⓘ Phoenician alphabet ⓘ Phoenician alphabet ⓘ surface form: Phoenician script East Syriac script ⓘ surface form: Syriac alphabet Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Ugaritic cuneiform

Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Central Semitic languages → alsoKnownAs → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest–Arabic Semitic

Canaan → associatedLanguage → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Canaanite languages

Canaanites → ethnicity → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

Northwest Semitic → hasMember → Northwest Semitic self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Canaanite languages

Semitic languages → hasSubfamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: West Semitic languages

Central Semitic languages → hasSubgroup → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic branch

Central Semitic languages → includesLanguage → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western Aramaic

Ammonite → languageFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

Canaan → languageFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Canaanites → languageFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Jebusites → languageFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Moabite → languageFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

Ugarit → languageFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Ugaritic alphabet → languageFamilyWritten → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Edomite → languageGroup → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

Baal → languageOfName → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

El → languageOfName → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Chaldean Neo-Aramaic → languageSubbranch → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Hebrew → languageSubbranch → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

Punic script → parentWritingSystem → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic scripts

Aramaic alphabet (historically) → scriptFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

subject surface form: Aramaic alphabet

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic scripts

Gimel → scriptFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic scripts

Hebrew alphabet → scriptFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

Phoenician alphabet → scriptFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

Phoenician language → subfamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Proto-Canaanite script → usedFor → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Canaanite languages

Ayin → usedInLanguageFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northwest Semitic languages

Proto-Canaanite script → writingSystemFamily → Northwest Semitic ⓘ